Efficient silicon solar cells with dopant-free asymmetric heterocontacts

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Bullock, James ^a,b,c,d   Hettick, Mark ^a,b,c   Geissbühler, Jonas ^e   Ong, Alison J ^a,b,c   Allen, Thomas ^d   Sutter Fella, Carolin M ^a,b,c   Chen, Teresa ^c   Ota, Hiroki ^a,b,c   Schaler, Ethan W ^a   De Wolf, Stefaan ^e   Ballif, Christophe ^e   Cuevas, Andrés ^d   Javey, Ali ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE;

CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; DOPANT-FREE; DOPED SILICON; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; HETEROCONTACTS; NEAR SURFACE REGIONS; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 85134254442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2015.31     Document Type: Article

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